[Wedge009]

Post in thread 'A nostalgic revisit of the Gemini sector'

Aug 27, 2026

https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Hind's_Variable_North - Missing negative sign for Nav points 4 and 5.

@Bandit LOAF one point to consider. I believe the system is Hind's Variable Nebula, a real nebula.

• kingmakeress

Can/should we rename Hind's Variable North to Nebula? I'm not sure where the North idea came from.

Hind's Variable North - Wing Commander Encyclopedia

www.wcnews.com

 

[Bandit LOAF]

That's noted and explained in the Behind the Screens section of that page.

 

[Wedge009]

Easy to miss - is a play guide really canonical though? It looks like a third-party publication - or is it really an in-house guide?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Published by Origin, written by Beth Loubet and the game's QA team!

It's a neat little book. Here's a scanned copy on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Wing_Commander_Privateer_Playtesters_Guide/page/n1/mode/2up

 

[Wedge009]

Ah, okay that settles it then. Thanks for the clarification.

BTW, assuming that's what provides the information for the Privateer systems entries in WCPedia, I found a number of inconsistencies in the raw game data - discussed in the linked thread at the start.

 

[kingmakeress]

Published by Origin, written by Beth Loubet and the game's QA team!

It's a neat little book. Here's a scanned copy on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Wing_Commander_Privateer_Playtesters_Guide/page/n1/mode/2up

Thanks for the link! I thought it was a reference to the real nebula.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

BTW, assuming that's what provides the information for the Privateer systems entries in WCPedia, I found a number of inconsistencies in the raw game data - discussed in the linked thread at the start.

I'll take a look! I think the raw data was extracted using Originator, but I haven't thought about that one in a bit. Will catch up.

Thanks for the link! I thought it was a reference to the real nebula.

I'm sure it was originally intended to refer to the nebula, but somewhere along the way it got changed to North instead of Nebula in-continuity.